Cold Blue Steel And Sweet Fire
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Tablatura interativa
Afinação: E A D G B ETecla: CCapotraste: Sem capotraste
As recorded by Joni Mitchell
(From the 1972 Album FOR THE ROSES)
Joni plays this in an Open tuning (CGDGBD).
Here it is arranged for Standard tuning.
[Intro]
G C
[Verse 1]
C
Cold Blue Steel out of money
C
One eye for the beat police
G7
Sweet Fire calling, "You can't deny me
G7
Now you know what you need"
[Verse 2]
C
Underneath the jungle gym
C
Hollow-grey-fire-escape-thief
G7 D
Looking for Sweet Fire
C
Shadow of Lady Release
[Chorus 1]
C
"Come with me, I know the way," she says
D Bb F G C
"It's down, down, down the dark ladder
C
Do you want to contact somebody first, leave someone a letter?
G
You can come now or you can come later"
[Verse 3]
C
A wristwatch, a ring, a downstairs screamer
C
Edgy black cracks of the sky
G
"Pin-cushion-prick, fix this poor bad dreamer!"
G
"Money" cold shadows reply
[Verse 4]
C
Pawnshops crisscrossed and padlocked
C
Corridors, spit-on prayers and pleas
G D
Sparks fly up from Sweet Fire
C
Black soot of Lady Release
[Chorus 2]
C
"Come with me, I know the way" she says
G Bb F
"It's down, down, down the dark ladder
C
Do you want to contact somebody first, does it really matter?
G
You can come now or you can come later"
[Verse 5]
C
Red water in the bathroom sink
C
Fever and the scum brown bowl
G
Blue Steel still begging but it's indistinct
G
Someone's HI-Fi drumming Jelly Roll
[Verse 6]
C
Concrete concentration camp
C
Bashing in veins for peace
G D
Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire
C
Fall into Lady Release
[Chorus 3]
C
"Come with me, I know the way" she says
G Bb F
"It's down, down, down the dark ladder
C
Do you want to contact somebody first, I mean what does it really matter?
G
You're going to come now or you're going to come later"
[Outro Sax Solo]
C G C G
D C D Bb F
How to play Cold Blue Steel And Sweet Fire
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